Word: chick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game, a Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed...
...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...
What is a bad egg? One that stinks with hydrogen sulphide, or one that contains a partially formed chick...
...order to show his players how to handle a wet football, famed Coach Chick Meehan of New York University drenched several with a garden hose and gave them to his squad for practice, on a sunny afternoon...
Married. Charles E. ("Chick") Evans Jr., famed golfer; to Esther Underwood of Summit, N. J.; at Lake Placid...